Now on Kickstarter from Tasty Minstrel Games, Downfall, Deluxified

Downfall is the latest game being published by Tasty Minstrel Games as well as the latest in their line of Deluxified games. Downfall is a 4X game where you are trying to survive in the post apocalyptic wasteland that is the year 2213 where nearly all of the planet’s population has died. You will have to gather resources, build bunkers and airships, combat other factions, and explore the wasteland in order to survive. Actions in this game will be done through card drafting and each card has a major action and a minor action, with major actions being things like gather, build, command, research, and war.

Gather and build are pretty self explanatory, command is how you will get your people around the board, research improves your major actions with technology cards, and war initiates battles between groups. You will be doing these actions, taking over parts of the board, gathering resources for building or feeding your people, and trying to keep the radiation at bay in order to score points. Each round has you drawing event cards with differing effects, and from time to time you will draw winter cards which will have negative effects as well as move the game timer along. Once the timer reaches the end you will total up your points and to see who is the winner.

As per the other deluxified Kickstarters you have two options, the retail version or the deluxified version. In the deluxified version you get things like wooden bits instead of punchboards, minis for the your leaders and airships, metal radiation tokens, and bigger hexes to make things easier to move around. The long and short of it is you will be getting a blinged out game for an increased price. You can check out more information, and back for one of the two versions, on the Kickstarter page.

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